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"Protecting the health and safety of health care workers is vital to the health of each of us. Preparing for and responding to a future influenza pandemic or to a sustained outbreak of an airborne transmissible disease requires a high-level commitment to respiratory protection for health care workers across the wide range of settings in which they work and the jobs that they perform. Keeping health care workers healthy is an ethical commitment both in terms of addressing the occupational risks faced by health care workers and of providing for the continuity of patient care and services needed to maintain the health of individuals and communities. During a public health emergency, challenges will arise concerning the availability of respiratory protective devices (i.e., respirators). Reusable respirators (specifically, reusable half-facepiece elastomeric respirators) are the standard respiratory protection device used in many industries, and they provide an option for use in health care that has to date not been fully explored. The durability and reusability of elastomeric respirators make them desirable for stockpiling for emergencies, where the need for large volumes of respirators can be anticipated. However, they are used infrequently in health care. Reusable Elastomeric Respirators in Health Care explores the potential for the use of elastomeric respirators in the U.S. health care system with a focus on the economic, policy, and implementation challenges and opportunities. This report examines the practicability of elastomeric use in health care on a routine basis and during an influenza pandemic or other large aerosol-transmissible outbreak, when demand for respiratory protective devices by U.S. health care personnel may be larger than domestic supplies. The report also addresses the issues regarding emergency stockpile management of elastomeric respiratory protective devices"--Publisher's description.

Respirators (Medical equipment) --- Medical personnel --- Health and hygiene. --- Mechanical ventilators (Medical equipment) --- Pulmonary ventilators --- Respirators --- Ventilators, Mechanical (Medical equipment) --- Ventilators, Pulmonary --- Anesthesiology --- Artificial respiration --- Respiratory therapy --- Apparatus and instruments --- Equipment and supplies

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Critical care medicine. --- Artificial respiration. --- Respirators (Medical equipment) --- Mechanical ventilators (Medical equipment) --- Pulmonary ventilators --- Respirators --- Ventilators, Mechanical (Medical equipment) --- Ventilators, Pulmonary --- Anesthesiology --- Artificial respiration --- Respiratory therapy --- Artificial ventilation (Therapy) --- Mechanical ventilation (Therapy) --- Pulmonary resuscitation --- Rescue breathing --- Respiration, Artificial --- Ventilation, Mechanical (Therapy) --- First aid in illness and injury --- Resuscitation --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Apparatus and instruments --- Equipment and supplies

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Respiratory system and artificial ventilation are key topics when considering the main aspects of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine: assisted ventilation techniques are essential to preserve the patient’s life, but just as any other treatments they can be also extremely pernicious. Scientific research and clinical evidences are equally fundamental in investigating the best methods to provide effective support and increase positive outcomes. It is obviously desirable that this knowledge and know-how are widely shared among scientists and practitioners. With this purpose, the book includes contributions by an international panel of authors and gathers their varied and valuable expertise up to illustrate principles, study results and case experiences on respiratory physiopathology, respiratory mechanics, respiratory functions monitoring, artificial ventilation and diagnostic radiology in respiratory dysfunction failure. We trust it can represent a precious reference for professionals in their ongoing self-improvement process to increase skilfulness. Furthermore, we hope that this book can serve as a useful learning tool for medical students and can contribute to the education of future anaesthesiologists and intensivists.

Respirators (Medical equipment) --- Respiratory therapy. --- Mechanical ventilators (Medical equipment) --- Pulmonary ventilators --- Respirators --- Ventilators, Mechanical (Medical equipment) --- Ventilators, Pulmonary --- Anesthesiology --- Artificial respiration --- Respiratory therapy --- Inhalation therapy --- Drugs --- Therapeutics --- Aerotherapy --- Intranasal medication --- Apparatus and instruments --- Equipment and supplies --- Administration --- Pneumology. --- Anesthesiology. --- Critical care medicine. --- Radiology, Medical. --- Pneumology/Respiratory System. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Anaesthesiology --- Surgery --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Respiratory organs—Diseases. --- Radiology. --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation